a shelf for holding books, especially one of several shelves in a bookcase. Contemporary Examples

Writing For Teens Vs. Adults: Rowling As Case Study Seth Lerer October 2, 2012 Maya Angelou: How I Write Noah Charney April 9, 2013 David’s Book Club David Frum February 20, 2012 Portrait of the Writer as a Young Doctor Dr. Abraham Verghese February 11, 2009 Belgium’s Master of Noir Nathaniel Rich December 3, 2010

Historical Examples

Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Various Micah Clarke Arthur Conan Doyle The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 Various Despair’s Last Journey David Christie Murray Love and the Ironmonger F. J. (Frederick John) Randall

a stand, booth, or stall at which books are sold, usually secondhand. British. a newsstand. Historical Examples Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. Graham Everitt The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine The Man Upstairs P. G. Wodehouse One […]

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